Once a year, three skilled and pampered Brown Swiss oxen travel from their home at Blackbird Farm in Smithfield to compete at the Fryeburg Fair in Maine.
The Tiverton non-profit has teamed up with BayCoast Bank to provide free humane education program opportunities for the next generation of animal welfare professionals.
The nonprofit foundation works within Rhode Island's Black, Indigenous and people of color communities to provide education and job skills training and support entrepreneurship.